Chapter on Guiding the Dying, Positioning Them at Death, Procedures for Their Final Moments, Washing Them, and Placing Them in Shrouds

And through this chain of narrators, from Muhammad ibn Ya‘qub, from Humayd ibn Ziyad, from Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Kindi, from more than one person, from Aban ibn ‘Uthman, from ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi ‘Abdillah: He said: I asked Abu ‘Abdullah عليه السلام how many garments a woman is shrouded in. Imam عليه السلام said: "She is shrouded in five garments, one of which is the headcover (Khimar)."